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Weezer
Weezer
alternative rock band from the United States
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Matt Sharp
Matt Sharp
American musician
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Patrick Wilson
Patrick Wilson
American musician
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Scott Shriner
Scott Shriner
American musician
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Mikey Welsh
Mikey Welsh
American musician and painter (1971-2011)
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The Avalanches
The Avalanches
Australian music group
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Kevin Ridel
Kevin Ridel
American musician
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Bill Callahan
Bill Callahan
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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Brendon Urie
Brendon Urie
American singer, songwriter, and musician, lead vocalist of Panic! at the Disco
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Kenny G
Kenny G
American saxophonist
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Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens
American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
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Scott Murphy
Scott Murphy
American musician
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The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
American alternative rock band
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Okkervil River
Okkervil River
band that plays alternative country
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The Postal Service
The Postal Service
American indie rock band
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Pixies
Pixies
American alternative rock band
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Iron & Wine
Iron & Wine
American musician
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Animal Collective
Animal Collective
American musical group
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The Hold Steady
The Hold Steady
band
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Steve Albini
Steve Albini
American record engineer and musician
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Greg Brown
Greg Brown
guitarist
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Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird
American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
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Weezer

Weezer

Phi Beta Kappa Society

Phi Beta Kappa Society

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Rivers Cuomo (/ˈkwoʊmoʊ/ KWOH-moh; born June 13, 1970) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and songwriter of the rock band Weezer.

Raised on an ashram in Connecticut until age 10, Cuomo moved to Los Angeles at 18, where he played in several rock bands before forming Weezer in 1992. Burnt out after the success of Weezer's self-titled debut album, Cuomo enrolled at Harvard University but dropped out to record Weezer's second album, Pinkerton (1996); he re-enrolled and graduated in 2008. Though Pinkerton is now frequently cited among the best albums of the 1990s and has been certified platinum, it was initially a commercial and critical failure, pushing Cuomo's songwriting toward pop music.

Cuomo has released thirteen compilation albums of home demos: Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (2007), Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (2008), Alone III: The Pinkerton Years (2011), Alone IV: Before Weezer (2020), Alone V: The Blue-Pinkerton Years (2020), Alone VI: The Black Room (2020), Alone VII: The Green Years (2020), Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years (2020), Alone IX: The Make Believe Years (2020), Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years (2020), Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years (2020) and Alone XII: The White Years (2020).

Outside of his work with Weezer, Cuomo has collaborated with a number of artists, including B.o.B and Todd Rundgren. Cuomo and Scott Murphy have released two Japanese-language albums under the name Scott & Rivers.